We investigate global factors associated with bank capital flows. We formulate a model of the international banking … system where global banks interact with local banks. The solution highlights the bank leverage cycle as the determinant of …

One aim of post-crisis monetary policy has been to ease credit conditions for borrowers by unlocking bank lending. We … find that bank equity is an important determinant of both the bank's funding cost and its lending growth. In a cross …-country bank-level study, we find that a 1 percentage point increase in the equity-to-total assets ratio is associated with a 4 …

channel, one bank's capital policy affects the equity value and risk of default of other banks. In a model where such … externalities are strong, bank capital takes on the attribute of a public good, where the private equilibrium features excessive … implications of the model with observed bank behavior during the crisis of 2007-09 …

We document the triangular relationship formed by the strength of the US dollar, cross-border bank lending in dollars … contractions of cross-border bank lending in dollars. Differential sensitivity of CIP deviations to the strength of the dollar can … as proxy for the shadow price of bank leverage …